 | Ernest Rhys, Lloyd Vaughan - 1920 - 522 pages
...painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine fit-Id. Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it weK, twice runs his race. And in this true delight, These unbought sports, that happy state, I would... | |
 | Kenneth Newton Colvile - 1923 - 296 pages
...to love her End. He never lost the art or the philosophy which enabled him as a boy to write thus: Thus would I double my Life's fading space, For he that runs it well, runs twice his Race. And in this true Delight, These unbought Sports, this happy State, I would not... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1924 - 222 pages
...but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep as undisturbed as death the night. My house a cottage, more Than...Art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field. Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it well, twice runs his... | |
 | Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 392 pages
...but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage, more Than...Art's; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field. Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it well, twice runs his... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 pages
...the choice, of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage more Than palace ; and should fitting be Kor all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures yield,... | |
 | Burges Johnson - 1927 - 340 pages
...but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage, more Than...Art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field. Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it well, twice runs his... | |
 | Norman Ault - 1928 - 544 pages
...the choice, of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage more Than...Art's, and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field. Thus would I double my life's fading space ; For he, that runs it well, twice runs his... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1876 - 840 pages
...business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage, more Thau palace, and should fitting be For all my use, no luxury....art's; and pleasures yield Horace might envy in his Sabine field. It was for strains of this elevated morality that Cowley won the enthusiastic praise... | |
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Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it well, twice runs his race. And in this true delight, These unbought sports... 
